The sequel to tvN’s popular thirtysomething-career-ladies-navigate-love-sex-and-work drama I Need Romance has landed a leading man, and it’s Lee Jin-wook (Myung-wol the Spy).

It’s the year of the macho man, and I’m fully onboard that train. (Seriously, it’s the latest *thing* — we had the flower boy, the beast man, the flower boy again (those’ll never go out of style, really), and now the soonjung macho hero. Which is to say: the macho, macho man with the pure heart underneath the layers of hard muscle (rawr).)

Lee Jin-wook tends to be hit or miss for me, depending on the drama (he’s done a bunch of lackluster ones), but I generally like him and his contradictory traits of boyish bashfulness and growly, glowerly fierceness. He hasn’t really had his definitive role yet, so maybe this’ll do it for him — he plays a screenwriter who’s caught between loving and trying to get over a longtime girlfriend. Sounds similar to the longtime relationship setup of the original’s leads; I wonder how they’ll maintain the mark of the franchise while making Season 2 a drama of its own with a fresh new cast.

The show has yet to secure its heroine, but with casting under way I expect we’ll be hearing more shortly. I Need Romance 2 will be a Wednesday-Thursday drama following Queen In-hyun’s Man, and aims for a June broadcast.

Yay. I’m currently enjoying tvN’s Twelve Men in a Year, and really had fun watching I Need Romance (S1), so can’t wait to check out Season 2. Macho macho man is fine, as long as it’s not along the lines of Fabio. Seriously, let’s leave Fabio to the 80s-90s Romance Novels. XP Hahahaha.

Yes, a bit of macho man once in a while is not bad. Cold stare, hot bod and sweet heart. Love that recipe and will wait patiently for that sequel. Just don’t give us the same ending please. Thank you writer.

Bit off topic, but did Lee Jin-wook ever appear in FO? He looks like one of the guests in FO who was a complete dork. I can’t remember the episode now. If he is, then I will be looking forward to seeming him in this drama. 🙂

Sounds goooood. According to the franchise he needs not only a set of girlfirends (an ex- and a possible replacement) but also a bunch of bffs. Now my imagination is running wild. So many names crossing my mind. Waiting for more information 🙂

Chuno. Yacha. IRIS. Yoo Ah-in in Sungkyunkwan. Dream, maybe (with all the hard-bodied boxers). Basically anything where the men are badass and/or glistening with musculature, instead of wispy and metrosexual.

Yes, he needs two very cute BFFs. Maybe Shim Ji-Ho (Color of Woman), Lee Tae Sung (Playful Kiss and he’s in Rooftop Prince now but maybe he could make it work?), or Choi Cheol-ho (from Queen of Housewives, The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry), or Jung Suk Won (Dr. Champ-the really cute judo bromance wrestler)….Too much handsomeness for one group of friends?

Oh no no no! Please do watch it Noelle. I wasn’t upset about the ending. After spending so much time with that character I feel like that was the best choice for her with all her feelings she still had (also I may be the only one who thought the guy wasn’t so bad. A dumbass, yes, but not so bad LOL). Don’t let those last 10 minutes stare you away from something awesome! It really is enjoyable!

He came across as rather wooden in his earlier roles like “Smile Again”. But then he did “Myung Wol’ and turned woody, like an oak tree, unflinching and impenetrable, and won my heart. Maybe we can pretend this is a sequel to his Ryu role: ex spy undergoes reconstructive plastic surgery to treat burn scars but saves one last scar as a memento of his spy days – a rubberbandlike scar around his arm, sustained when he dashed his entire arm through the windscreen of the careening car to block a tree from toppling onto the front passenger seat and Myung Wol, the love of his life. Perhaps they should change the title to “I Need Ryumance”?

soonjung macho is definitely a drama trend i can get behind, much more so than kkotminams, anyway, hehe. korean dramas are so funny; aiming for a june broadcast but the cast is still incomplete… this is why drama actors are overworked. sigh.

omg!!.. jin wook oppa is back!.. miss him so much after spy myungwol… huhuu.. can’t wait to watch it.. is it air on june?.. lol can’t wait.. hmmm… i never watch this drama before.. but i will definitely watch it because of him.. hehee… ^^